What's new in Zipfusion 6.5.3
Dec 18, 2015
- Minor changes have been made to the configuration editor and to the layouts of stub programs.
New in Zipfusion 6.5.2 (Dec 18, 2015)
- Due to defects in some antivirus products, use of compressed stubs is no longer recommended, therefore various minor changes have been made to accommodate this problem. In particular, the stubs are no longer supplied in a compressed form.
- The Microlight stub is approximately 42KB in size.
- The Extractor and Installer stubs are approximately 110KB in size.
- The stub programs now contain version information.
New in Zipfusion 6.5.1.1 (Dec 18, 2015)
- Corrected problem that could cause non-standard color values to be ignored.
New in Zipfusion 6.5.1 (Dec 18, 2015)
- Added two new environments variables
- DIR_APPDATA : Typically (XP) C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data
- DRC_APPDATA : Typically (XP) C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data
New in Zipfusion 6.5 (Dec 18, 2015)
- The visual style has been updated and features for 64bit Windows have been added.
- A new configuration instruction 64bit intructs the stub to require a 64bit version of Windows.
- The banner area has been discontinued and all related statements are now ignored.
- A new statement CustomBorder has been added together with ColorTitle and ColorBorder.
- The Microlight and Installer stubs now include a white area above the buttons that can include an image - JPEG and GIF formats are recommended but other formats are supported.
- The File Extractor stub is now menu-driven.
- The default value of the Title is now determined by the ProductName and ProductVersion values.
New in Zipfusion 6.2.02 (Aug 3, 2008)
- Improved icon handling.
- Applies to file extractor stub only. Other stubs and the editor are unchanged.
New in Zipfusion 6.2.01 (Apr 29, 2008)
- Corrected a problem that could prevent the editor opening correctly.
- Corrected a problem that caused the DIR_EXTRACT environment variable to not be set if UAC = Extract.
- Corrected a problem when UseTempDir = false and UAC = Extract or UAC = Extract,Execute
- Extraction to a user-selected destination directory now works correctly.
- Corrected and clarified documentation for the Launch instruction.
New in Zipfusion 6.0 (Jul 30, 2007)
- Added a Graphical User Interface to the configuration editor.
- Primary configuration values can be set by dialog but less frequently used values must be set using the text editor.
- Added support for Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC).
- This required some structual changes internally so minor changes in behaviour may be observed on other platforms.
- Added UAC instruction to display a UAC prompt at startup, before extraction or before executing a command.
- Added Launch Instruction to open the application with standard privileges when installation is complete.
- The Launch command is performed when the Execute command has completed (if its exitcode is zero).
- The default backfill color is now black (rather than navy) under Vista.
- The default banner color is now black (rather than white) under Vista.
- If no icon is defined, a windows default is used in the titlebar but is not displayed in the banner area.
- Added BannerShowIcon instruction to determine if the icon is displayed in the banner area.
- The stub programs are now stored with other application data. Backup stubs are stored in the Zipfusion program directory. If a stub is missing from the application data or is older than its backup, the backup is copied on demand.
- Under XP, Zipfusion application data is typically stored in C:Documents and SettingsusernameApplication Dataipfusion
- Under Vista, Zipfusion application data is typically stored in C:UsersJimAppDataRoamingipfusion